08:21 – 13 Rural Coordination demonstrators arrested
According to police sources cited by BFMTVprecisely 13 people were arrested on Place de l’Etoile this Friday morning.
08:13 – End of blockage on the A4
“All of the lanes of the A4 motorway towards Paris in the town of Saint-Maurice have been returned to traffic” explains Sytadin. But the specialized site adds that exit no. 3 of the A4 remains “closed for an indefinite period” because the demonstrators are still there. “Access to the A4 motorway towards Paris from the D214, the Quai de la République (D103) and rue du Maréchal Leclerc in the town of Saint-Maurice is also closed,” Sytadin further specifies.
08:02 – “Everything we planned to do is finished” according to a member of the Rural Coordination
“Everything we planned to do is finished,” declared Frédéric Ferrand, trade unionist from the Haute-Saône Rural Coordination on BFMTV. According to him “the day is done”, but the movement “will not stop there, our profession is doomed if we do nothing”, he added.
07:51 – Several arrests during the mobilization of Rural Coordination
Several arrests of trade unionists took place this Friday on the sidelines of the Rural Coordination mobilization. “They are taking us each one by one, it is shameful what is happening” reported a mobilized farmer to France Blue Paris. Among those arrested is the union spokesperson, Patrick Legras, who was arrested shortly before 7 a.m. according to franceinfo. “For three days, we have been made fun of at the European level,” explained the spokesperson at the microphone of BFMTV before being arrested: “We signed a free trade agreement with Chile, with Kenya, we were given a nature restoration law which will further handicap our food sovereignty both at the European level and in the French level. According to him, the mobilization is a way of showing the “leaders who took over the International Agricultural Show in force on Saturday” that farmers can “also take over Paris and the Arc de Triomphe”.
07:38 – Rural Coordination gathered at the Arc de Triomphe
It was a surprise and striking demonstration organized by the Coordination Rural union this Friday March 1st. Between 100 and 150 people gathered at the Etoile roundabout with tractors and blocked the avenues with straw bales. The organization explained that it wanted to “symbolically and peacefully take the Star” and “converge towards Paris” to pay tribute to the agricultural world and show that the movement of angry farmers is not over.
02/29/24 – 11:28 p.m. – Marion Maréchal doused with beer at the Agricultural Show
END OF LIVE – Head of the Reconquest party list! in the European elections in June, Marion Maréchal went to the Agricultural Show this Thursday, where she was doused with beer. According to information from TF1, an individual, apparently drunk, has since been arrested and presented in the evening to a judicial police officer. Marion Maréchal was able to count on the support of Jordan Bardella who hoped, on X, that “each of the European candidates could campaign with respect”.
02/29/24 – 10:18 p.m. – Who are the personalities expected on Friday at the Agricultural Show?
Three days before the end of the Agricultural Show, several figures from Environmentalists are expected on Friday at Porte de Versailles. Among them, the national secretary of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, and the MEP Marie Toussaint, head of the list of the environmentalist group for the 2024 European elections.
02/29/24 – 9:12 p.m. – Two former Prime Ministers of Emmanuel Macron all smiles at the Agricultural Show
This Thursday, Édouard Philippe, former Prime Minister, current mayor of Le Havre and potential candidate for the 2027 presidential election, in turn strolled through the aisles of the Agricultural Show. On this occasion, he was notably seen alongside another former tenant of Matignon, Élisabeth Borne, with whom he shared a drink on a stand.